>  I keep reading that there is an idle stabilizer valve
>somewhere but I can't find it.  I've looked behind the passenger
>tailight but it's not there.  Help me out oh great vanagon gurus.

It's a kind of cylindrical object with a rubber hose leading in and out of
it at one end, and an electrical connector on the other. It's right smack
dab in the center, on top of all the engine plumbing. Looks like this
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7971318884>

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
$10895 "invested" since July '04